Climbing Faculty Ladder Still Challenge for Women

By Colleen Flaherty. An analysis of female academic life by Bridget Turner Kelly, associate professor of education at the University of Maryland at College Park, published by the Brookings Institution, says that at best, “the process of advancing through tenure remains stagnant for women professors, at worst, some could say women ascending the professor ladder is now harder than ever.” The higher on the ladder one looks, Kelly wrote, the fewer tenured women there are. More...